Matt Gaetz makes things even worse for himself with idiotic tweet
How bad are things looking for Matt Gaetz right now? Joel Greenberg now says he’s cutting a plea deal against Gaetz. This means Greenberg thinks he has enough evidence against Gaetz to score himself leniency, which is remarkable considering he’s been charged with thirty-three different felony counts. Two of Gaetz’s top congressional staffers have resigned. And even people like Tucker Carlson are running away from him.
Worse for Matt Gaetz, he’s, well, Matt Gaetz. He’s an overconfident idiot, but because he’s from a connected family and he’s a Republican, he’s always been able to smirk and bullshit his way out of trouble. Nothing works that way when you’re being criminally investigated for something like underage sex trafficking; if you’re proven guilty then you’re definitely going down. Gaetz’s smart move would be to simply remain quiet and try to let his lawyers find him a way out of this. But again, he’s Matt Gaetz.
This morning Matt Gaetz tweeted a link to a New York Magazine profile about him. Gaetz made a point of highlighting this passage: “Gaetz didn’t attract coverage simply through his constant presence as a TV pundit; he drew media attention for his heterodox libertarian views on drugs and foreign policy.”
Wait a minute here. There’s just about no one, including Gaetz’s own supporters who know or care what his positions are on drugs and foreign policy. His platform for the past few years has literally been “Trump is good, anti-Trump people are bad.” Yet now he’s suddenly encouraging everyone to look at his drug policy?
This comes just one week after it was reported that the Feds are investigating whether Matt Gaetz used ecstasy and gave it to the women he was paying to have sex with. This is a serious matter, beyond a mere drug charge, because giving drugs to drug-addicted women in exchange for sex can be seen under the law as a form of sex trafficking.
The thing is, with so many newly reported aspects to the federal probe into Matt Gaetz, the week-old revelation about ecstasy had largely fallen out of the headlines. But now Gaetz is basically telling everyone to focus on him and drug policy. These kinds of tweets don’t prove he’s guilty, but they do prove he’s an idiot. And while the court of law will decide whether he goes to prison, the court of public opinion will decide how quickly his political career implodes.
